The medical profession has been built by hardship. People go in for all kinds of mundane things now. Refill this prescription for headaches. Get a few stitches on a cut from a fall. A referral for ...

Nurses face three times as many hand hygiene opportunities as physicians, study finds Does how frequently a clinician needs to wash his hands affect hand hygiene compliance rates? A recent study ...

As a nurse, you're used to washing your hands countless times a day, so you're probably also fighting dry skin. The skin on your hands may also crack, which leaves them more open to infection. If ...

Running from patient room to patient room, it can be surprisingly easy for doctors and nurses to forget to wash their hands, especially if they’re dealing with an emergency. Hospitals have been ...

If there is one group of clinicians that is particularly pivotal to the success of any quality improvement initiatives — including though regarding hand hygiene compliance — it’s the nurses who work ...

Combined with constant hand-washing and sanitizing, the donning of gloves can lead to dry, itchy skin, which can result in less hand washing and sanitizing because of irritated skin. In fact, a recent ...

Efforts to improve hand hygiene at health organizations must include nurses, according to an article at Becker's Hospital Review. Hospitals have long understood the importance of hand-hygiene ...

With all the reminders lately to wash your hands to prevent the spread of flu, you might feel like you're back in grade school. But it can be so hard to get people to follow proper hand hygiene that ...

The new Nursing Christian Fellowship encourages compassionate care, ethical decision-making, and personal growth in the ...

Herein I will outline a proposal, rooted in the microeconomics principles of supply and demand, that can guide our nation to a beneficial outcome: a way in which unequal access to care, combined with ...